2020s dystopian films

28 Years Later is a 2025 post-apocalyptic coming-of-age horror film produced and directed by Danny Boyle and written by Alex Garland. The third film in the 28 Days Later film series, it stars Jodie Comer, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Jack O'Connell, Alfie Williams, and Ralph Fiennes. The film tells the story of a boy living in a post-apocalyptic world who undertakes a hazardous journey with his ill mother in an effort to obtain medical treatment for her.

2024 film directed by Wes Ball

2023 film directed by Francis Lawrence

2024 film directed by Alex Garland

28 Years Later: The Bone Temple is a 2026 post-apocalyptic horror film directed by Nia DaCosta and written by Alex Garland. It is the direct sequel to 28 Years Later (2025) and the fourth instalment in the 28 Days Later film series. It stars Ralph Fiennes, Jack O'Connell, Alfie Williams, Erin Kellyman, and Chi Lewis-Parry. The film follows Spike as he is adopted into "Sir Lord" Jimmy Crystal's satanic cult while Dr. Ian Kelson makes an unexpected connection with Samson, an Alpha Infected.

2020 film directed by George Clooney

2021 film directed by Chris McKay

2021 film directed by Doug Liman

The Long Walk is a 2025 American dystopian survival thriller film directed by Francis Lawrence and written by JT Mollner. It is based on the 1979 novel by Stephen King. The film stars Cooper Hoffman, David Jonsson, Garrett Wareing, Tut Nyuot, Joshua Odjick, Charlie Plummer, Ben Wang, Roman Griffin Davis, Josh Hamilton, Judy Greer, and Mark Hamill.

The Running Man is a 2025 science-fiction action film co-produced and directed by Edgar Wright, from a screenplay by Wright and Michael Bacall. It is the second adaptation of the 1982 novel by Stephen King, following the 1987 film. It stars Glen Powell as Ben Richards, a competitor on a lethal reality television show. The cast also features William H. Macy, Lee Pace, Michael Cera, Emilia Jones, Daniel Ezra, Jayme Lawson, Sean Hayes, Colman Domingo, and Josh Brolin.

2020 film directed by Adam Mason

Mercy is a 2026 American science fiction thriller film written by Marco van Belle, directed by Timur Bekmambetov, and starring Chris Pratt and Rebecca Ferguson. The plot involves a detective (Pratt), who is accused of murdering his wife, and must prove his innocence to an artificial intelligence judge (Ferguson). The film also stars Kali Reis, Annabelle Wallis, Chris Sullivan, and Kylie Rogers.

The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping is an upcoming American dystopian action film directed by Francis Lawrence from a screenplay by Billy Ray. Based on the 2025 novel Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins, it serves as both a sequel to The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023) and a prequel to The Hunger Games (2012), and will be the sixth installment in The Hunger Games film series. It stars an ensemble cast that includes Joseph Zada, Jesse Plemons, Elle Fanning, Kieran Culkin, Mckenna Grace, Whitney Peak, Maya Hawke, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Ralph Fiennes, and Glenn Close.

2021 film directed by Neil Burger

2024 film by Nag Ashwin

2020 film directed by Fyodor Bondarchuk

2020 film directed by Seth Larney

2024 film directed by McG

2025 film directed by Paul W. S. Anderson

The Great Flood (Korean: 대홍수) is a 2025 South Korean science fiction disaster film co-written and directed by Kim Byung-woo. Starring Kim Da-mi and Park Hae-soo, the film depicts the desperate struggle of those who have pinned their hopes on humanity's last days in a flooded apartment building.

2024 film directed by Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia

2024 film directed by Paul Feig

2023 film by Prashanth Neel

2024 film directed by Heo Myeong-haeng

2020 film directed by Michel Franco

2023 film directed by Albert Pintó

Cosmoball, also known as Goalkeeper of the Galaxy () is a 2020 Russian 3D superhero space opera film written and directed by Dzhanik Fayziev, based on the animated series Galactik Football, with the participation of the television channel Russia-1. The film is set in the future, a post-apocalyptic city in a world inhabited by survivors of an intergalactic war that has shifted the planet's poles. Above the city towers a huge alien ship - it is a stadium, the planet's fate rests in the hands of the willing and capable Cosmoball players who are defending the Earth. The fate of the planet depends

2021 film directed by Andrew Baird

upcoming British-American film directed by Taika Waititi

2022 film directed by Anthony Hayes

2020 film directed by Romain Quirot

2022 film by Kristina Buožytė and Bruno Samper

2024 film directed by Steven C. Miller

2024 film directed by Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia

2020 film

2020 film by Sandra Wollner

2024 film by Carles Torrens

2023 film directed by Mahalia Belo

unreleased film directed by Hamlet Dulyan

2023 film directed by Diana Ringo

2025 film directed by Cédric Jimenez

2023 anime film directed by Naoyoshi Shiotani

2024 film by Asif Kapadia

2023 film directed by Brock Heasley

2024 film directed by Caitlin Cronenberg

2021 film directed by Diana Ringo

2022 Bulgarian film

2024 film directed by Alexander Andryuschenko

2020 film directed by Lázaro Ramos